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ness of the hero. Hear the plain story of Alfred Smithers, who stood five foot eight, had sandy hair and an apologetic eye, ear

w that suicide was clearly indicated. The relics of sense which distinguish hysteria from madness made her choose the manner of her suicide. She went up on to the Heath one afternoon and flung herself into a p

ng home. The second loafer observed that something ought to be done at once. The thi

ed her hat, unhooked her dress at the neck, fanned herself w

se, make her come out and do it again. Nurse, ain't that

fished the pond and believed the depth nowhere exceeded three feet, who saw a policeman with a coil of ro

loafer. "Don't waste time thinking abart it."

's a man!" screamed th

needed, but inserted by way of trimming-Smithers jumped feet foremost. There was a mighty splash. When it subsid

ts of inextinguishable laughter. It was a good afternoon

roared the second loafer. "Dive

e took one step forward, and incontinently vanished down a fifteen-foot hole, of the

floor because it mayn't begin tea cake first. He lashed out hard and indiscriminately with both hands, and might have succeeded in scraping off most of the half-drowned lady, but that he found in his struggles they had both become entangl

scarecrows. Those being sorted out on the grass proved to be one moiety Smithers and one moiety Trimmins. The treatment of the apparently dr

the moment, yet everywhere he felt the admiring gaze upon him. "Bravo!" exclaimed an old gentleman. A very chorus of bravos followed,

as you went down the hole to fetch her up was very smart. You must be pretty quick and neat with you

ithers, indulgently, "sh

wound the slack twice round yourself! And it couldn't have been done quicker i

come down, and something had happened to her nose. It was suggested that she had struck it in entering the water. Alfred Smithers remembered at an early stage

o Mrs Warboys, and over the left-hand wall to the widow of the late Charles Push. In twenty minutes the story was all over the terrace and had not shrunk. There was great excitement, and three separate houses hoped that Mrs Smithers would look in for a cup of tea, and would be glad if they could do anything to help. She accepted two of the invitations, and would visit the third house on the m

lump of dough traversed by a steam-propelled roller, but satisfied

ribed-"A mother's tribute to her daughter's presserver" (sic). The newspapers on the whole did well, though the Times was quite outclassed in the race for news, having but two lines to the half column of the local organ. The magistrate cautioned Miss Trimmins

ther lady and was au mieux with Emily Trimmins, who, so far

en the magistrate had finished, to have the pleasure of sha

land had good cause to be proud went home